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Economic Development Director Matt Morrissey speaks with residents at a South Central Neighborhood meeting.
Economic Development Director Matt Morrissey speaks with residents at a South Central Neighborhood meeting.

Trade Mission Promotes City’s Marine Commerce Terminal

By Bryan Booker 3 weeks ago

A recent trade mission to Europe for the South End Marine Commerce Terminal was the subject of a South Central neighborhood meeting Tuesday.

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Fairhaven, Once Again, Wants To Shut Down Their Wind Turbines [UPDATE]

By Jack Peterson April 10, 2013

One member of the Fairhaven Selectboard brought up the issue of the wind turbines at their meeting Tuesday night.

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Falmouth Will Not Tear Down Turbines, For Now

By Jack Peterson April 10, 2013

Falmouth residents who want to tear down two wind turbines will have to try again after failing to get enough votes at a town meeting last night. 

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Fairhaven Debates Wind Turbine By-Law Changes

By Bryan Booker February 12, 2013

Fairhaven residents testified for nearly two hours Tuesday at a Planning Board hearing on amending the town's wind turbine by-law.

The amendments would put greater limits on power output and height of new turbines, and increase the minimum distance between turbines and homes

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Wind Turbine Suit In Scituate

By Jack Peterson January 17, 2013

A wind turbine in Scituate will keep spinning while a family that lives nearby sues to shut it down. 

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Fairhaven Board of Health Fields More Wind Turbine Complaints

By Bryan Booker January 7, 2013

Fed-up residents in Fairhaven took their case to the Board of Health Monday, trying again to get the town's wind turbines shut down. The Board heard comment on a proposed wind turbine by-law, before being shut down by Fire Chief Tim Francis, for exceeding the meeting room's approved capacity

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Judge Rules Against Windwise Fairhaven Turbine Protesters

By Jack Peterson December 7, 2012

A Bristol County Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of the Town of Fairhaven in a lawsuit concerning the town's wind turbines. 

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Offshore Wind Clears Another Hurdle in Massachusetts

By Bryan Booker November 13, 2012

The state's proposed Wind Energy Zone has gotten a boost from the Federal government. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management was in New Bedford Tuesday, presenting its environmental assessment of the 740-thousand acre zone, expected to be the future site of several hundred wind turbines

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Is It Unhealthy To Live Near Wind Turbines?

By Phil Paleologos November 13, 2012

On Tuesday's show, John Methia of Wind Wise was my guest, as we discussed newly released scientific peer studies that show serious medical conditions in people living and working close to the turbines.

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Wind Power Is Coming To BCC’s Fall River Campus

By Jim Phillips October 9, 2012

The Massachusetts Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is awarding Bristol Community College $600,000 to invest in wind energy on its Fall River campus. 

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